Woven cartridge-belt.



N0. 773,066. PATENTBD GUT. 25, 1.904.

W. G.-FISHER. WOVEN GARTRIDGE BELT. A?PLIOATION IILED JUITE 23, was.

ITO MODIEL.

UNITED STATES Patented October 25, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. FISHER OF MIDDLETOVVN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR 'IO THE RUSSELL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF MIDDLETOWN,

CONNEOTICUT.

WOVEN GARTRIDGE-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 773,066, dated. October 25, 1904.

Application filed Inne 23, 1903. Serial N0. 162,815. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom it mag ooncern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. FISHER, a resident 0f Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invent ed certain new and useful Improvernents in Woven Cartridge-Belts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the .art to Which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvernent in eartridge-belts, the object 0f the invention being t0 provide a cartridge-belt composed of woven material having a body portion provided With pockets woven thereon and wovenstrap portions narrower than the body portion and connected with said body by tapering woven webs.

With this object in view the invention c0nsists in a woven cartridge-belt comprising a wide body portion having pockets woven integral therewith, the ends of the body portion having short tapering woven portions and narrow buckIe-straps woven integral With the smaller ends of seid tapering portions, said buckle-straps being narrower from their juncture With the tapering portions to their I'ree ends than said body portion.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a. view in elevation, illustrating my improvements; and Figs. 2 and 3 are views in section.

1 represents the body portion of the belt, 2 the eartridge-pockets, and 8 the narrow buckle-straps.

My improved belt is eomposed of woven selvaged material With the pockets 2 having their sides woven thereon in one continuous weave, and the narrow buckle-straps are counected in weaving with the body portion by tapering.woven po'rtions 4:, said buckle-straps being of substantially uniform width from their juncture w:ith the tapering portions 4 to their free ends.

While I have shown the buekle-straps about two-thirds the width of the body portion they may be made narrower, if desired. By uniting the buckle straps with the body portion through the mediurn of the integral tapering portion, as above described, no warp or weft threads are left exposed and no metal or other binding forany portion of the edges of the belt is necessary.

Any desired forma of buckle may be ernployed, anti I do not restrict rnyself to any particular construction of eonnecting device.

Having fully deseribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to seeure by Letters Patent, is

An article 0f manufacture consisting of a woven cartridge-belt compriSing a wide central body portion having pockets With their sides woven integral therewith, and narrow buekle-straps connected with the body portion by tar)ering portions each edge of the belt throughout its Iength being forrned with a eontinuous woven selvage edge 0r binding.

In testimony where0f I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. FISHER. 

